Looks like they forgot to put the moss and beeswax caulking in BETWEEN the planking at the bottom...And that nylon stretches when it's wet!

Thanks so much for this and all you're time team uploads. Living in the U.S. as I do, I never had the chance to watch Time Team. Cheers to you Reijer!

Just goes to show our ancient elders actually were smart and knew what they were doing. They were masters of their trade. Skilled & genius artisans.

Thanks again for another download, Reijer. I am addicted to Time Team.

How nice to see a Time Team special, almost two years after the series ended. I really mis that program. Somehow I did not get to see this special. Thanks for putting it up here.

Kind of funny how they thought using modern materials that do not expand for a shortcut would work. They should have asked a shipwright, they might have learned how you have to pre expand wooden craft before launch or all you get is leaks.

On the first build I knew the caulk wouldn't work. We call it caulk in America, mastic is for laying down flooring here in the states, it is used as an adhesive. Caulk isn't really meant for that application. It is meant to keep rain out or moisture out, but not water under pressure. I appreciate that they did have a second try and went back to the old way of sealing the boat. This was very entertaining. Phil was a gas as usual. I could see Phil in a pub in Calais. Or anywhere for that matter. Where there is a pub, there is Phil.

I have learned so much from Time Team over the years.

To a degree, the swelling of the planks when in water would mitigate some of the leakage, which is why wooden vessels are left in the water once in the water. Hauling them out causes wood to dry and seams to open. They could have tested for leaks before the launch by simply using a garden hose to put water in the interior and see where it was running out and how fast. Roughly the same technique for testing of early steam chests. The Bronze Age, as is stated, heralded an explosion of technology. It is hard to comprehend the insight of the ancients when it comes to making stuff from what they dug from the Earth and chopped out of the forests.

Always wonderful to see Phil!

I love when they do these projects. I find the ancients fascinating and amazing. Thank you for posting and editing.

Thank you for sharing this delightful TT special. I have enjoyed all the Time Team episodes I have watched so far!

A brilliant project people with great sense of humour and No time lapse photography many thanks for posting this excellent video

Absolutely amazing boat! Nice to see the ancient build succeed, where the more modern tweaks failed.

Just imagine how it would have gone if they used it with people who could actually paddle

I think that this shows how much we have underestimated the skills and knowledge of the agent people as well as we have done with people from other places.

Stop risking life and limb.. Wonderful program! THANK YOU!

Totally brilliant programme . That gold was amazing , and the boat superb - eventually :)

An Expert traditonal Shipwright? Using nylon and expecting a new wooden boat not to leack? Any wooden boat is delibratley submerged for a month and allowed to swell. The same would happen with the ties, they swell to become waterproof. Though all wooden boats leack.

a great achievement; it is super to see Time Team again:)

This whole video was just amazing.

Maybe they need more than a "team" of experts, like a community for such a project, with each individual sharing knowledge and collecting and making the parts.

Haven't seen this one. Thanks.

Fascinating special!

Awesome show. Thanks

so good to see this!...Thanks! 😀

Thank you for uploading.

Thank you!

"Ground breaking Archeology?" Tony, is there any other kind?

Hey, great that you still update new videos :-)))

Thank you.

Poor guys i do admire them for not giving up👍

Fantastic film , fanks !

Well I heard from a very old boat maker that when they launched a wooden boat they would toss sawdust into the water underneath it which would go into the holes and expand blocking the leaks.

Thanks so much. I've been watching your channel for a while now and love Time Team. As the reason the first test failed is pretty obvious to anyone who has ever worked on old wooden boats. They didn't cork it. Pretty basic thing for a wooden hull. Pounding oakum in the cracks.

This is amazing!

Thank you

Phil makes me scream with laughter 😂

Who ever had the idea vor this show was as they would have said bang on the money. It would have been a nice idea if they had made some specials touring more of Europe.

fun to see robin wood in action,,,

This episode shows how the concentration of humans in Britain, Europe and the Mediterranean combined with the move from hunter-gatherers to farming caused a rapid growth of technology.

Wonderful

What a phenomenol program!

brilliant

Mooie serie, (vooral de experimentele archeologie) de mudlarking serie is ook interessant kun je misschien ook nog Tudor monastery, of building the castle toevoegen😊

So glad they managed it in the end👏👏

A very interesting film.

Dry timber needs to absorb and swell thus temporarily "sinking" the boat to thoroughly soak it would close the leaks.

I'm totally surprised being they had a shipwright there that the didn't know the boat could leak for a couple days, they built her out of dry wood that has to swell up by soaking up water and therefore help seal up the joints and make her strong and tight.

Blij dat je door gaat.

"Robin Wood" BAHAHHAHA

This brings to mind Julius Caesar's account of the Venetti ships on the coast of western Gaul. Perhaps another project...that is if we have a Venetti shipwreck to work from.

The workmanship is excellent but I have some serious doubt about one aspect of the boat. Because hogging and sagging when a boat tackles a wave , the midship sides are subjected to a lot of punishment. I see a vertical joint in the sides of the sides of the boat and these are jointed with a few turns of that primitive rope. I while the bottom is made of a long plank, it moment of inertia about the vertical is not good enough and the sides acting as powerful beams are the elements that have to stand the hogging and sagging. If above the central joint at the centre of the vertical sides there was another longeron tied above the the joint where it projects above the parts which make the sides, the half sides would be tied together much better than with the rope and the longerons on top of the joint of the sides with the bottom planks. The sides could have been made to be much more powerful beams with a little more effort. Apart from that the workmanship and the perseverance and the spirit of those people working together in such a tight schedule, I wish I was amongst them working with them as I come from a family of traditional med. boat builders and seeing this video touched my soul and spirit and reminded me of my uncles who worked with the same tools I say in this video. Congratulations to all.

This is enormus

did they forget about wood swelling!?!?!?!? come on tony!!!

Common practice in wooden boat building is to fill the boat with water and let the wood swell before you launch.

I remember older wood boats took a lone time to put into water. They had to swell the joints. They all took on water at first

The onset of bronze age made the world shrink dramatically.

That boat equals a million chops with bronze tools. WOW.

The shipwright should have known that the wood needs to swell to seal correctly. Too dry and it can take weeks to fully swell.

So, a California girl here...our First People of the California Coastal Tribes sewed their 'tomols' together, too!!! Yup!

I keep wondering who taught these academics how to row? You row together as a team! Come on guys you can do it!

I don't know much about boats, but it seems to me that since this is a scaled-down model, it wouldn't handle the same as the full-size real thing. The different weight distribution of the rowers, the cargo, and the increased overall dimensions would probably make the bigger boat more seaworthy than the scale model looks in the demonstration. To be honest, while they seem happy that it works, I wouldn't dare to cross the channel in that thing.

pack the joins between each plank with slightly heated wax or the fat mixture, push together, then let it dry after it seeps into the gaps

The boats that made Britain... Give it to me

I love how they learned they can’t cheat.

Perhaps the boat was not constructed in England, but rather in France.

Three thousand years ago there is this explosion of technology around the globe. Rome did not yet exist. The geometric progression of technology in the Bronze Age alone is hard to comprehend. But there it is.

I wonder if this time will be called the "smart stupid period" by future archeologists...

Phil’s dad shoes! Nike monarchs!

Yes, the boat sunk, then when the wood swelled, it was lifted.

Try a Coiin Archer. Not criticising, just other developmemts . Cracìng great video.

maybe that is why the Dover boat was moored. It also leaked upon launch?

they say about the connection with Etaple in France,were there every any boats like this found in France?

shame they didn't know it was common to allow a wooden hull to swell her seams over night or for as long as a week. Also bog water was commonly used to soak green lumber prior to bending

Just wondered if the channel was as wide as it now between Dover an Calais back then? May be not quite as dangerous as it is now.

Instead of using nylon ropes, a natural material capable pf swelling when wet, would have solved the problem. Likewise the swelling of the wood would have prevented leakage. It would, however, be necessary to allow some time for the boat in the water to achieve this. A look at ancient boats from the Red and Arabian Sea, which also used the method of sewing planks together would have helped.

"A people joined by the sea rather than separated by it." Perhaps by by Doggerland ancestry?

Tuathe De Danaan

How much tech came from the age of Doggerland with these changes just a few thousand years after the great collapse.

They finally gave up their unsuccessful solar helicopters and started making boats!

👍🇸🇪❤️

excuse me, is there anyway you can upload the subtitle of this movie? Not an English speaker, I find it hard to follow some parts. Thank you very much.

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Caulking goes from the outside in not from the inside out

Yeah. No Ancient Aliens needed

yeah, unfortunately this shows the inherent bias of many academics, including well meaning folks doing experimental archaeology. They somehow think people three thousand years ago were idiots. They betray their own lack of what used to be common knowledge. Woodworking, sealing and material sciences. But i guess that is the reason they do it, to learn from mistakes

not uncommon for a new wood boat to leak - and the easiest way is to let it sink let the wood swell and then its watertight , so why did they not do that?

This appears to be the last upload from Reijer Zaaijer

Someone should have invented the bilge pump?

It's always funny to hear Phil complaining about "modern" materials. He considers Copper and Bronze to be modern.

Wood Age

35:30 Me thinks Phil Harding might have Dyslexia. One hand winds and the other unwinds. Hence, no twisting. It's nice to know that I'm not alone! :D

look at how arabs in oman and india did waterproof those logs !!!

These were the ancient sea people's and the mythical Tuathe DE Dannan. The Denyens who raided Egypt, the Daniens from the Illiad, the sons of Tuirean from Irish legend.

A wooden boat needs to take up.leave it in the water

Time Team mandem

no tony it doesn't look like a sculpture

We know who you are, Bronze!

I assume they used people from their museum, rather than people who knew what they were doing. Experimental archaeology with nylon rope and synthetic adhesive? If you don't have the time or the money to do it, don't do it.